Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel
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What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.
In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate audiobook, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space.
Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program.
Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before. At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel- Amazon Sales Rank: #17086 in Audible
- Published on: 2013-12-18
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 610 minutes
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233 of 242 people found the following review helpful. Best suited for math lovers By Irfan A. Alvi First of all, let's be honest and not mislead the general reader - this book covers a lot of highly advanced math. The author, Edward Frenkel, likely does as well as anyone could to outline the math in a way that a non-specialist audience can usefully grasp if they put in considerable effort and re-reading, but even then the reader needs to be comfortable with math at least at the undergrad level (calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, etc.). Don't expect to really 'understand' what Frenkel is talking about unless you have considerably greater math background, say grad school level and prior familiarity with the particular areas of math Frenkel covers.Being an engineer, I fall into the former category and came to this book already loving math, and I found the math in this book to often be quite tough going (especially in the second half of the book), though I did get a rough sense of what he was talking about (and I followed the advice to keep going in the tougher parts rather than getting bogged down). True, I could re-read the whole book to get a better understanding, but realistically it would make more sense to bone up on the prerequisite math using other books and then return to this book in a few years (yes, that long). Because I feel that the accessibility of this book for the general reader has been overstated by the book's endorsers and overestimated by the author, I'm deducting a star.That said, I did enjoy this book greatly and am glad that I read it. Besides the exposure to high-level math and the associated research and discovery process (at both the individual and collaborative levels), I found this window into Russian culture fascinating, and frankly I was rather surprised to see that the culture matches many of the stereotypes quite well (Frenkel relates many memorable stories in this regard). I was also inspired to see Frenkel's passion for math, his perseverance against serious adversity, and his resulting remarkable achievements, which he describes with considerable humility, all things considered. In that regard, I was also awed, yet again, to see the reach of some human minds (alas, not mine!) into the wondrous parallel universe of Platonic objective truth which we call 'mathematics' (or more precisely, perhaps we should give a different name to that universe, since 'mathematics' only reflects what we've discovered and mapped so far).Summing up, I can definitely recommend this book to anyone who already loves math and has decent mathematical 'maturity' in the sense of being able to handle math at a relatively abstract level. Those who don't have at least that background could mostly skip the math in the book and instead focus on the memoir aspect. Whether that would be worthwhile depends on the specific interests of the reader, and I only can say that I and apparently many other readers greatly enjoyed that aspect.
204 of 222 people found the following review helpful. What's love got to do with it? By Aaron C. Brown Edward Frenkel is one of the great mathematicians in the world, and in this book he voices an ancient complaint: "Intelligent people would never say, 'I don't care about art, or music. But it is totally okay to say, 'I hate math.'" The usual antidote is to show people that math can be fun and useful as in The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, or even exciting and sexy as in Numb3rs. Another species of popular math books and movies (such as Perfect Rigor, Pi, A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting) imply (in Frenkel's words), "a mathematician is on the verge of a mental illness."Love and Math takes a novel approach. The author loves math with a deep intensity that has animated an extraordinary life story, and he has the rare ability to explain why. The only comparable work I know is Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Both Frenkel and Hawking discuss work normally considered too advanced even for non-specialist professionals in their fields, in terms any serious reader can comprehend, without resorting to trite analogy or oversimplification. Love and Math does not teach you how to do advanced mathematics, but it can make you see what it is mathematicians are doing, why they do it, and why it matters.The book proudly rejects defenses of mathematics as a useful applied field or as a mere adjunct to philosophic or scientific inquiry. The author holds himself out unapologetically as a pure mathematician, exploring abstract relationships for the love of it. He does make a few noises about the applicability of some mathematics, but it's always the same quantum physics and public key cryptography and he's half-hearted about that. He wants to tell us about the fierce emotions he feels: fear, doubt, disappointment, joy and triumph; and he's not ashamed to put mathematics up there with great art, or with concepts as fundamentally human as sex and death.In a sense it is like a book on art or music appreciation that doesn't show you how to paint or play an instrument, but that delves deeply enough into those activities to allow a lay person to share some of the intense love felt by artists. But there is an important difference, at least in my opinion. All these books can claim to show you "The Heart of Hidden Reality," but I believe the "hidden reality" of art is basically subjective. Ultimately art tells us about ourselves, not about the universe. Mathematics is also revealing about the nature of the human mind, but amazingly it seems that God is a Mathematician as well. Mathematical truths that were discovered purely because they seemed logically appealing have often turned out to illuminate deep facts about the universe, many decades before we had empirical hints about those facts, or even before anyone thought to ask questions about them.The first step in Frenkel's unorthodox strategy is to include brief but poignant autobiographical details. He skillfully sketches a character who is shy and brilliant, tough and sensitive. He has the great misfortune to be born under Communism, and in particular to be Jewish (according to USSR ethnicity rules, that is) in Russia in the 1980s. Yet he is extraordinarily fortunate in his mentors and colleagues, and in opportunities like being offered a visiting professorship to Harvard as a 21-year-old without a graduate degree (and in being allowed to accept it and emigrate to the West in 1990). He illustrates his personality through sharp portraits of incidents like disappointing his mentor by refusing the return to Russia or confronting a blustering apparatchik bigot, inexplicably invited to lecture at MIT.Autobiography is interspersed with accounts of some of his mathematical researches. He explains the problems in simple terms, but he does not try to motivate them. Anyone can follow his definitions of braid groups and his discussion of his explorations. They take no mathematical interest or training, although a non-mathematical reader will have to plow through an unfamiliar amount of unmotivated details.Why does he tackle these problems? Because it's fun and challenging. If that were the whole story he would be like an applied mathematician, or even a recreational one. He makes clear there is another factor. His problem choices are guided by professional mathematicians who feel the answers will open up new areas for exploration. He feels keenly the fear that he is working on an insoluble problem, or one with no elegant or useful answer, or one he is unequipped to solve. Yet that thrills him as much as daunts him. But when he finds the answers he treasures having discovered universal truth, unknown to any other human. Writing up formal proofs is a tedious ordeal.This is a wonderful combination of autobiography, mathematics and, yes, love. Although it is easy and pleasant to read, it is a deep book that deserves careful contemplation and rereading. A few people can explain advanced mathematics, and fewer can explain love. Almost no one can explain both at once. This is an important book that everyone should read.
58 of 66 people found the following review helpful. I love math and really wanted to love this book but... By Salvatore R. Mangano In the preface Frenkel hooks you by explaining that all the Math you ever learned in school was only a small part of the story and most of us have never been shown the masterpieces. He makes the analogy of learning about art without ever being shown a da Vinci or Picasso. There is truth to this. But as the book progresses Frenkel drags the reader through murkier and murkier waters until all but the most well schooled mathematician could hope to see but a fraction of what Frankel is trying to show.It also does not help that Frankel writes badly. His prose is truly boring and uninspired. So even the autobiographical parts of the book, which the non-mathematician could easily follow, are tough to slog through.I do give the author credit for the choice of subject matter. Group Theory, Topology, Reimann Surfaces and ties to Quantum Physics and String Theory are some of the jewels of Mathematics. However, Frenkel lacks what many genius mathematicians lack: empathy. He is unable to empathize with the plight of the mathematically unsophisticated reader and hence leave even the motivated lost, dazed and confused.
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